The sky couldn’t be bluer here in Seattle. That was a song wasn’t it? Anyway, the trail is in great shape and waiting on you to get here. No special anything needed.

Monday 0900-1000
Tuesday 1600-1700
Thursday 0900-1000
Sunday 1600-1700

Alperfect, Felipé.

Early on in the history of this blog I had this feature of Repair and Towing to fix things here that needed fixing. I started out this morning not feeling very good and am just now hours later thinking about doing something useful. So, I need some fixing.

Wiley, our son is off today and has fixing the plastic roof on his deck on his mind. I will be called in on that I am sure. That roof got trashed in the big wind storm that came before the big snow storm which broke everything that was left.

So, one of things that needs fixing is how you think about commenting on this blog. When you submit a comment it doesn’t appear in the Comments right away. It takes a certain amount of time. So don’t panic, have faith. Just submit it once and it will work, honest.

And two, all the news for the Caminoheads Convention will be on the blog in Wednesday’s post. Every week there will be more as we figure it out. We want you to come if you can so look there for details.

OK, I am going to pack it up for now. I am happy I accomplished this much so far. Happy loves, Felipé.

We are in the last stages of prep for planting here at the ranch. I was out yesterday tilling, once east and west and once north and south. We are still drying out and warming up and the soil is close. My old friend Jim from Buffalo will be here to lend a hand planting. He gets here with his better half Gloria on the 8th of May so the 9th we start, God willing. So fun, I am like a little kid! Well, you don’t actually have to be a kid to have fun playing in the dirt.

Jim and I used to work on his Dad’s farm way back when. We both have a love for the land and for working with it. Being a part of the process is important, not just being an observer. I just realized recently that all of my childhood heroes were people that were land owners or had some association with the land. I am right where I am supposed to be with Raven Ranch, a dream come true.

CAMINOHEADS GET-TOGETHER NEWS : OK, so our get together is August 23-26th here at the ranch on Vashon Island. The closest airport in SEATAC. If you are coming you need to RSVP by June 15th at this special email address: caminoheads@outlook.com .
This address is being taken care of by our CSWBC Rho and she requested two things for me to pass on to you. When you check in with her it is for convention business only so don’t think that you are chatting with Felipé so “Just the facts Mam” like Joe Friday used to say. She also needs to know how many are in your party.

We are still in the planning stages. So, if you have a question that needs answering please send it to me at caminoheads@icloud.com and I can help you.

Alright, time to go. Growing loves, Felipé.

A couple days of pics for you:

Here we are, we celebrated Easter and now onward into the Spring. I am thinking about my quote in Annie’s book here now. What did I say, something like I am over thinking about conquering the Camino and have settled into cruising along happy to just be doing it. And as I think about Spring and all that needs to be done I am thinking of this. Can I stop worrying about conquering this list of “need to be done’s” and just cruise through it. That sounds like a plan.

The sun is out here, begging me to get outside. The woodpecker is not evident this morning, not playing his electric woodpecker guitar anymore. Must have impressed someone.

Well, off we go into Spring. Will have some new stuff about the Caminoheads Convention tomorrow here. Later, love, Felipé.

We just had a terrific weekend. I was not feeling my greatest but other things made up for that. That’s where our family and friends come in. They sort of fill in the blanks and the thin spots in life with their love and consideration. I just want to take a few breaths to say thanks for that. So thank you My Rebecca and my family and all those that keep in touch with us. It is irreplaceable really this commodity, this community. We can’t supply it for ourselves or buy it anywhere.

So, it is Monday and need to get back in the swing of things like work and bills and such. Oh, there is our resident woodpecker back at his work on our power pole. I did contact our power company to have them check out the soundness of the pole since the woodpeckers find it so interesting lately. But I think some of it is pecking for communication with friends, cousins and possible mates. This one guy has figured out how to peck on the steel cable that runs to the ground for support. He has discovered the electric woodpecker guitar and what a sound! I hope the babes are impressed.

Walking in a minute here at the Phil’s Camino trail. Had a nice walk yesterday with our new friend Jane coming to keep me company. That was sunny and this morning there are layers of those marine clouds to give us that Pacific Northwest ambience.

Well, one more Happy Easter to you where you are. I appreciate you stopping by to kee me company. Thank you loves, Felipé.

“This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.” That might be from Psalms but from the Bible anyway, close enough. Yea, here we are having moved through Lent. Hope we learned something in all that. It looks like I saved my whole Lenten effort up until Good Friday and the pilgrimage. Cramming last minute, hey Felipé.

Lately I am so thankful for my Christian faith, for it’s ability to build and maintain resilience in me. I seem to be able to walk my cancer walk without spending time in the dark regions of dispare. I can see it from where I am and sometimes I brush up against it but the ability to remain positive in all s3ituations seems my strong suit. And Easter is the crown jewel of the Church year in terms of the theme of positivity. Here we are!

So wishing you a big Happy Easter! My Rebecca and I are going to catch some lunch and then take a sunday drive. Nothing serious. A walk at 1600. Easter loves, Felipé.

Monday 0900-1000
Tuesday 1600-1700
Thursday 0900-1000
Sunday 1600-1700

Just come, Felipé.

Well, I am happy to say that Catherine, Jessika and I pilgrimed the heck out of it yesterday with our Good Friday Trek. It was lightly raining and cloudy the whole time of the four hours it took to walk to church. I had torn my jeans and had dried blood on my face but I got there.

It was fun to see some of the trails that Kelly, Rick and I trained on back in the day, back in 2014. It was spring out there with mushrooms, little blue flowers and one random turkey. We were reminded of what a beautiful place we live in.

Holy Saturday here today. It always seems like a strange in-between time. I like to believe that Jesus was visiting the ancestors giving them the Good Word, bringing them to salvation during this vailed time. And now we all live for tomorrow.

Today as I calculate is the fortieth day of Lent and Annie O’Neil’s book Everyday Camino with Annie gives us this last quote:

Recently I shifted from my beginning
mentality of worrying about conquering
the Camino and have settled
into just cruising along being
happy I am able to do it.
Phil Volker

Well how about that? I got lucky enough to get into this group with Dalai Lama and Yogi Berra, not to mention the other notables. Well, throughly flattered I am. My being in there at all was a result of Annie and my meeting on March 2nd 2014 when Martin Sheen handed me over to her for my further training. Our meeting caused her book to be finished and our film to begin to be, heady times.

Thanks for being here today and see you tomorrow for celebration. Only the best to you fellow pilgrims, love, Felipé.

Cloudy and wet here, perfect for our Good Friday pilgrimage. It is about seven miles on the woodland trails and a few back backroads to get there. We are allowing four hours to do it. We have been talking about this for five years now and finally Catherine and I had to admitt that we were loosing our credibility on this one, so itis time.

I am going to try and go to work for a couple of hours this morning. No power tools though. I realized years ago that I was too distracted on this day to do anything that takes concentration. Keep it safe Felipé.

Did get in an hour of rototilling on the corn yesterday afternoon. Had a pile of rotten straw that I worked into the soil along with the cover crop that is quickly disappearing as I till. Not a finer goal then to think of enjoying fresh sweetcorn on the cob this late summer.

Pilgrim Farmer John Conway is going to be here for the Caminoheads Convention is August. I am going to put him in charge of the corn picking when the time comes. Of course all of this is a God willing situation as my friend Aho’i spoke of in the Comments today.

Am I always going to be behind with my Lenten quotes project. I thought that I had this figured out but I must have missed yesterday, what a scatterbrain Felipé. OK, we will do two today:

All of the ways I walked in pain,
all of the times I felt that I couldn’t go on.
The guilt the shame, and all the things
that held me down are falling away from me.
It’s all falling away, away from me.
from Falling Away From Meby Rickie Byars Beckwith and Michael Bernard Beckwith

What a relief to shed certain things from our lives. We weren’t made to carry such a burden, time to let it go. We have more important things to do now.

And here is a Charles Darwin:

If I had my life to live over again,
I would have made a rule to read
some poetry and listen to some music
at least once a week. C.D.

Yea, what is this once a week stuff? How about every ten minutes? Well, we get the sentiment Charles, yes. I think that a guy can get way to wrapped up in that science stuff and lose the bigger picture is what he is saying I think.

Well, time for us to wrap it up for today. Thanks for getting here to be with us on this Good Friday. Sorrowful loves, Felipé.